ask me about monday, december 2, 2024

We had a quick "field trip" this morning to look at landforms.  This class is always ready for a trip!  They took pictures with their pretend cameras and enjoyed the beautiful landforms in some of our National Parks.  I'll put the video in below so you can enjoy it as well.  We looked at and named the different landforms.  There are only a few things in this video that are human-made and every other beautiful thing is from nature.  We also learned from our virtual guide, Billy Bluehair, how some of these landforms were made over millions of years.  Ask me to tell you the name of some of the landforms in the video.

In reading, we practiced reading simple consonant-vowel-consonant words.  We need a lot more practice with short vowels, so I will be adding extra work that we will do to help children with these tricky sounds!  I will be doing a quick assessment to see who has the vowel sounds and how is still learning them to make a couple groups.  Please don't be concerned if your child is still learning the short vowel sounds; they are tricky and they just haven't had enough practice with them.
In math, we worked first with number lines.  We talked about what we noticed, then how they increase by one when you move to the right and decrease to zero as you move to the left.  We played a fun game of Mind Reader where I think of a number and they have to guess the number.  We started by using a number line from 0-10.  One child would guess a number and I would tell them if it was more or less than that number.  We would cross out the numbers it couldn't be then, so they guessed 9, and the number was 4, I would say it was less than 9.  We knew it couldn't be ten so we would cross that out.  This game can be played with any number line, it doesn't have to be 0-10, it can be 5 - 25 if you like.  This is a great game to play if you find yourself waiting somewhere and have paper and a pencil.
We also talked more about measurement and rules for measurement.  We also reviewed some of the vocabulary used when measuring.  We will get a lot of practice this week measuring! 

Stay warm!
​Miss Wolfe